Module 11: Rural Sanitation - Lohiya Swachh Bihar Abhiyan (LSBA)

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Lohiya Swachh Bihar Abhiyan (LSBA):

LSBA is executed in mission mode, integrating the Central Government's Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin) [SBM(G)] and the State Government's Lohiya Swachhta Yojana (LSY). Under SBM(G), project financing is shared between the Central and State Governments in a 60:40 ratio.

Strategic Approach & Community Mobilization:

The prime mandate of LSBA is to ensure universal sanitation coverage and achieve an Open Defecation Free (ODF) Bihar through proactive public participation.
Behavioral Change Communication (BCC): Adopts a demand-driven, beneficiary-led model centered on changing ingrained sanitation behaviors.
Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS): Mandatory tool employed for collective behavioral change and village-level peer mobilization.
Mobilizes the extensive grassroots network of JEEViKA Self-Help Groups to drive toilet adoption and hygiene education.

Technological Interventions for Transparency:

Implementation of the Public Financial Management System (PFMS) and a parent-child institutional accounting structure to manage Direct Beneficiary Transfer (DBT) seamlessly.

⭐ Key Points

The prime mandate of LSBA is to ensure universal sanitation coverage and achieve an Open Defecation Free (ODF) Bihar through proactive public participation.
Behavioral Change Communication (BCC): Adopts a demand-driven, beneficiary-led model centered on changing ingrained sanitation behaviors.
Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS): Mandatory tool employed for collective behavioral change and village-level peer mobilization.
Mobilizes the extensive grassroots network of JEEViKA Self-Help Groups to drive toilet adoption and hygiene education.

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The prime mandate of LSBA is to ensure universal sanitation coverage — and achieve an Open Defecation Free (ODF) Bihar through proactive public participation.
Behavioral Change Communication (BCC): Adopts a demand-driven, beneficiary-led model centered on changing ingrained sanitation behaviors.
Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS): Mandatory tool employed for collective behavioral change and village-level peer mobilization.
Mobilizes the extensive grassroots network of JEEViKA Self-Help — Groups to drive toilet adoption and hygiene education.

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Which participatory tool was introduced as a mandatory instrument for behavioral change under the Lohiya Swachh Bihar Abhiyan?

Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) was made mandatory under LSBA to induce collective behavioral change.

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The prime mandate of LSBA is to ensure universal sanitation coverage ______

and achieve an Open Defecation Free (ODF) Bihar through proactive public participation.

Behavioral Change Communication (BCC): Adopts a demand-driven, beneficiary-led model centered on changing ingrained sanitation behaviors.

Adopts a demand-driven, beneficiary-led model centered on changing ingrained sanitation behaviors.

Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS): Mandatory tool employed for collective behavioral change and village-level peer mobilization.

Mandatory tool employed for collective behavioral change and village-level peer mobilization.

Mobilizes the extensive grassroots network of JEEViKA Self-Help ______

Groups to drive toilet adoption and hygiene education.